[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 85 (Thursday, May 22, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1038]
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                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                             HON. DON YOUNG

                               of alaska

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, May 21, 2008

  Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Madam Speaker, I submit the following:
  Bill Number: H.R. 5658: Army, RDT&E, Line 177, PE #0305208A 
(Distributed Common Ground/Surface Systems).
  Legal name and address of entity receiving earmark: Battle Command 
Battle Lab, Mr. Jason Denno, Deputy Director, Fort Huachuca, AZ 85613.
  Description of how the money will be spent and why the use of federal 
taxpayer funding is justified: The Constant Look system is a prototype 
biometric sensing capability developed for the U.S. Army to support 
MOUT (military operations in urbanized terrain). Its unique stand-off 
capability gives users an ability to support surveillance and special 
operations remotely. User comments from several demonstration tests 
included requests for enhancements to improve usability and extend the 
capability of the system in terms of what can be collected. The 
Constant Look Operational Support Environment (CLOSE) will provide that 
additional functionality by leveraging several proven off-the-shelf 
technologies--a stand-off digital collection system and additional 
digital signal processing (DSP) to extract other types of biometric 
signatures.
  The U.S. Army's ISR Battle Command Battle Lab at Fort Huachuca (BCBL-
H)--responding to user requests--has developed and tested a stand-off 
biometric sensor system that allows traditional and special operations 
units to conduct surveillance and identify potential hostiles from a 
safe distance with a low probability of detection. To date, the 
majority of the effort on Constant Look has focused on the core 
collection system technology and the user interface has not kept pace 
with available commercial technology. CLOSE will remedy that by 
leveraging millions of dollars in commercial investment and integrating 
that investment into the Constant Look baseline.
  CLOSE will provide CL users with a rapid capability to collect and 
model surveillance target facilities, including ingress and egress, 
from the same stand-off range as the CL collection system itself. 
Secondly, it will extend the DSP capability resident within the CL 
baseline to extract other types of Indications and Warning (I&W) data.
  Description of matching funds: Not applicable.
  Authorized Amount: $4,000,000.
  Project Name: Constant Look Operational Support Environment (CLOSE).
  Funding Source: Army, RDT&E, Line 177, PE #0305208A (Distributed 
Common Ground/Surface Systems).
  Detailed Financial Plan for Earmark: $200,000, System Engineering; 
$500,000, Immersive Camera System; $900,000, Interior Tactical Blue 
Force Tracking, Sense-Thru-The-Wall Radar; $1,500,000, Improvements; 
$650,000, Biometric Databasing; $250,000, Training, Testing, Delivery. 
Total: $4,000,000.

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